diff --git a/roles/distgit/tasks/main.yml b/roles/distgit/tasks/main.yml
index bebb1a1177..d395449973 100644
--- a/roles/distgit/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/distgit/tasks/main.yml
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@
   group: name=gen-acls gid=417 state=present
 
 - name: create the gen-acls user
-  user: name=gen-acls comment="dummy system account for the gen-acls fedmsg job" uid=417 group=gen-acls shell=/bin/bash home=/
+  user: name=gen-acls comment="dummy system account for the gen-acls fedmsg job"
+        uid=417 group=gen-acls shell=/bin/bash home=/srv/git
 
 - name: create the /etc/gitolite/conf directory
   file: path=/etc/gitolite/conf owner=gen-acls group=gen-acls state=directory mode=0755